Evil Joe Barresi’s Glamouflage Kit Welcome and thank you for purchasing Evil Joe Barresi’s Glamouflage Kit! We hope you enjoy working with it as much as we do. Please read through this manual carefully. The installation process and the Hit types used in this expansion pack differ from earlier products in the FXpansion BFD range. Reading through this manual will ensure that you get the most out of the sounds. The data on the Glamouflage Kit DVDs is compressed (using a zero-loss algorithm), to facilitate the delivery of the highest possible level of detail. Either BFD2 or the latest version of BFD v1.5 is required in order to use Evil Joe Barresi’s Glamouflage Kit. Please make sure it is properly installed before you proceed. Installation
Each DVD contains an installer specific to the contents of that DVD. Please follow these steps for each DVD ! Special note for Mac users: during the installation routine, you may be asked for your Admin password. You must have Admin rights in order to install this software.
IMPORTANT!! Each DVD contains different installers for users of BFD 1.5 and BFD2. If you only own BFD 1.5, please run the installer named: Evil Joe’s Glamouflage Kit Installer BFD1 [OSX]/[Win] If you have BFD2 installed (including BFD 1.5), please run the installer named: Evil Joe’s Glamouflage Kit Installer BFD2 [OSX]/[Win]
Mac users should run the Installer for OSX and Windows users should run the installer for Win. 1. Insert the DVD and run the Evil Joe’s Glamouflage Kit Installer • Windows: If the installer does not auto-run, explore the DVD contents in My Computer and double-click Evil Joe’s Glamouflage Kit Installer BFD 2 Win.exe to run it. • Mac: Open the DVD contents and double-click Evil Joe’s Glamouflage Kit Installer BFD 2 OS .X 2. Follow the on-screen instructions until the ‘Installation Path’ stage appears. 3. Select your audio path: For BFD 1.5 this is the folder which contains the Data folder in which the sample data resides. Make sure you select the BFD folder, and not BFD/Data or any other folder. If you do not select the correct folder, the new sounds will not be available within BFD. For BFD2, select an existing BFD2 data path or create a new folder - this should not be in the same path as any BFD 1.x data. Click Next when you’re ready to proceed.
4. (BFD 1.5 only) Enter your Glamouflage Kit serial number (located on the inside front cover of the case containing the DVDs). Click Next to proceed. 5. Choose the detail level at which to install the DVD’s kit-pieces. This determines the maximum amount of velocity layers (and the hard disk usage) that are installed for each kit-piece on the DVD. Higher detail levels have a higher impact on system resources. Small: a maximum of 20 velocity layers will be installed Medium: a maximum of 40 velocity layers will be installed Large: a maximum of 96 velocity layers will be installed SuperSize: all the velocity layers will be installed
NOTE: Installing SuperSize will require more disk space - To use the extra velocity layers please read “New expressive possibilities” on page 10 of this manual
Click Next to commence installation. Installation of each DVD can take quite a while, as a large amount of data needs to be de-compressed and installed.
Adding a new Data Path in BFD
If you’ve added a new data path for the sample data, you need to add that path to BFD:
• BFD 1.5:
In the Options Panel add the new Data Path
• BFD 2:
In the BFD2 Data Preferences add the new Data Path
Please consult your BFD manual for details about adding a new data path.
Authorizing
After installation, the first time you run BFD2 it will scan the new data and prompt you to run License Manager.
Authorize Evil Joe’s Glamouflage Kit (EJG) in the License Manager in the same way you authorized BFD2 and any other expansion packs you own. Please consult the BFD2 QuickStart Guide for a full guide to using the License Manager to authorize a product.
Your serial number is located on the inside front cover of the case containing the DVDs
If you experience any problems during the installation, please consult our FAQ page: www.platinumsamples.com/faq You MUST be registered to receive support. The BFD2 authorization process registers your serial automatically, but BFD 1.5 users will need to register their serial at www.platinumsamples.com manually. Registering also means we have a record of your serial if you lose it. Lost serials will NOT be replaced! Registering also allows you access to the download area, containing free bonus content such as additional velocity layers.
Evil Joe Barresi
Some highlights from Joe’s career include:
› Tool - 10,000 Days › Queens of the Stone Age - QOTSA, Lullabies To Paralyze › Audrey Horne - No Hay Banda › Rancid - “Fall Back Down” from Indestructible › Bad Religion - The Empire Strikes First › Turbonegro - Scandinavian Leather › Backyard Babies - Stockholm Syndrome › Clutch - From Beale Street to Oblivion › Judas Priest - Angel Of Retribution › Weezer - Pinkerton › Powerman 5000 - Transform › Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun, Welcome to Sky Valley › Raging Speedhorn - How The Great Have Fallen › Tomahawk - Mit Gas › Pennywise - Land Of The Free › The Jesus Lizard - Shot › Fu Manchu - The Action Is Go › Matchbook Romance - Stories and Alibis › L7 - The Beauty Process, Hungry For Stink › The Melvins - Stag, Honky, Stoner Witch › Skunk Anansie - Stoosh
for additional credits please visit the Platinum Samples website.
Recording notes
The Glamouflage Kit was recorded in one of LA’s greatest rock drum rooms direct to analog tape, using a Studer tape recorder. Joe used the studio’s classic Neve 8028 console and his own esoteric collection of outboard gear to sculpt his sounds. To accomodate the way Joe records and to keep things phase accurate, the BFD drums are set up as follows: Kick In and Kick Out were recorded as a mono track and multed to both tracks. Cymbals 1 & 2 are the same as the Overheads right and left respectively as viewed from audience perspective (please see the panning notes on page 12).
No mics were killed or injured during the recording of this expansion pack.
• Direct Kick In & Out: Sennheiser 421, Neumann 47 FET, Audio Technica ATM 25. Snare Top: Shure SM57, KM86. Snare Bottom: Shure SM57. HiHat: AKG 452EB, Neumann KM84. Toms: Sennheiser 421, Neumann u87, AKG 414EB. Ride: Neumann KM84, AKG 452EB. • Overhead Pair of Neumann u67’s, Pair of Violet Amethyst Vintage, Pair of Coles 4038’s. • Room Pair of Neumann u87’s, Pair of Royer 121’s.
More details and pictures are available on the Platinum Samples website.
quickPack notes
Unlike other expansion packs for BFD, the drums in the Platinum Samples quickPacks are fully mix processed while still having all the tracks separated and without losing any velocity layers. The PZM/Ambience channels have been used for the sidechain effects return - this channel should be used at unity (-3dB in BFD2) for best results.
Using the new sounds in BFD Kits and Kit-Pieces All Kit-Pieces on all DVDs must be installed in order to use the ready-made Kit. If you’re only installing a selection of Kit-Pieces, you need to compile your own Kit from the installed Kit-Pieces, something which takes a matter of seconds in BFD.
A note about the new Hit type articulations Certain Kit-Pieces feature only some of the possible Hit type articulations, or feature new types of articulations substituted for the conventional BFD Hit types. With such a large library, the usefulness of the sound had to be balanced against the extra resources required. Please consult the Kit-Piece listing in this manual, or the info text displays in the BFD Kit-Piece Selector panels, for details of each Kit-Piece’s Hit types and substitutions.
New expressive possibilities The Glamouflage Kit features detail levels much higher than the original BFD library. With a SuperSize installation, there are over 150 velocity layers for some hits. To access the higher velocity layers change the Max layers setting in the BFD Preferences. WARNING!! Using velocity layers above 128 may severely overtax your system especially if you’re running any other soft synths with BFD.
Hyper-detailed hihats and cymbals The hihats in this pack feature extra ¼-open and ¾-open position Hit types, in addition to the usual closed, ½-open and open positions found in the original BFD library. Ride cymbals include bell Hits. The hihats and cymbals are captured with more velocity layers than those on the original BFD library.
10 11 Increased RAM overhead The increased levels of detail in the new sounds cause a significantly higher RAM overhead compared to the content in the original BFD library. When using smaller amounts of RAM (768MB to 1GB), you should install the Glamouflage Kit with Small or Medium detail levels (see Installation guide for details), or consult the Performance Tips section in the BFD FAQ for other ways to optimize BFD for lower memory usage at the FXpansion website.
Using Evil Joe Barresi’s Glamouflage Kit The Platinum Samples quickPacks are fully mix processed -- meaning the drums were recorded like they would be on a recording session and have also had final mix processing applied to them. The drums have been meticulously tuned, compressed and EQ’d by a master craftsman. The result is an expansion pack which sounds great as soon as you load a kit. We suggest you load the Glamouflage Kit preset. This will give you a balance for the drum kit as Joe would mix it.
The Kick Unlike other Expansion packs, the kick drum was multed to a single track - this is the way Joe records his kick and it ensures that you have the correct blend between inside and outside mics. For BFD 1.5 you may find it best to pan the mixer to full In or Out to get the correct gain if you use BFD All and only use a single fader for the Kick drum.
The Rooms The Glamouflage Kit was recorded in one of LA’s greatest drum rooms. The dimensions of the room is 40 x 50 feet with a 25 foot high ceiling. Part of the room’s character is the delay time to the room mics. To preserve the room sound the delay to the room mics was not adjusted. If the room channels are pushed up very high, the slap in the room will be audible.
10 11 The Stereo Room Joe records his drums from the audience perspective, so by default the Room Left is aimed towards the Ride side of the drum kit and the Room Right is aimed towards the Hat side of the drum kit.
The Overheads and the Cymbals To minimize phase issues and redundant mics, the left overhead is a mult of the Cymbal 2 track, similarly the right overhead is a mult of the Cymbal 1 track to match existing BFD data. Joe records his drums from the audience perspective, so Cymbal 1 would be panned to the right (Hat side) and Cymbal 2 would be panned to the left (Ride side).
12 13 The Alternate Kicks & Snares The Kick and Snare are also included with optional processing. There are two options:
• Processed through Joe’s Helios Preamp, Line In • Processed through Joe’s Helios Preamp, Mic In. This is a more distorted, dirty sound. Grooves The Glamouflage KitquickPack includes MIDI Grooves and Fills which will be installed into BFD from DVD 1. They will appear in their own folder named EJG in the BFD 1.5 Groove Librarian. For BFD2, new palettes will be installed and appear in the Palletes Chooser in BFD2.
12 13 • Zildjian Custom A Series Medium crash DVD1 Audio/EJG Glamouflage Kit/Crash 2 Size: 270 MB Manufacturer: Zildjian EJB Kit 5 Size: 20” Model: Custom A Series Medium crash, Brilliant Finish • Pork Pie Glamouflage Audio/EJG Glamouflage Kit/Kick1 Hit Size: 272 MB Manufacturer: Pork Pie • Zildjian A Series Ping Ride Size: 18x24” Audio/EJG Glamouflage Kit/Ride 1 Model: Glamouflage Size: 422 MB Beater: DW Plastic Manufacturer: Zildjian Date: circa 2001 Size: 24” Heads: Model: A Series Ping Ride Beater: REMO Clear PowerStroke 3 Front: REMO Clear Ambassador w/ hole Hit, Bell
Hit • Zildjian Rock Hats Audio/EJG Glamouflage Kit/Hihat • Zildjian/Noble & Cooley Size: 1390 MB Audio/EJG Glamouflage Kit/Snare1 Manufacturer: Zildjian Size: 773 MB Size: 15” Manufacturer: Zildjian/Noble & Cooley Model: Rock Hats Size: 7x14” Date: circa 1970’s Closed (tip + shank) Drum Head: REMO Coated Emperor X Quarter (tip + shank) Half (tip + shank) Hit, Rim, Flam, SS ThreeQ (tip + shank) Open (tip) • Zildjian A Series Medium thin crash Pedal Audio/EJG Glamouflage Kit/Crash 1 Size: 256 MB Manufacturer: Zildjian Size: 18” Model: A Series Medium thin crash, Brilliant Finish
Hit
14 15 • Pork Pie Glamouflage (Helios Line In) DVD2 Audio/EJG Glamouflage Kit/Kick2 Size: 272 MB • Pork Pie Glamouflage™ Manufacturer: Pork Pie Audio/EJG Glamouflage Kit/Tom Floor Size: 18x24” Size: 264 MB Model: Glamouflage Manufacturer: Pork Pie Beater: DW Plastic Size: 16x18” Date: circa 2001 Model: Glamouflage Heads: Materials: Maple Beater: REMO Clear PowerStroke 3 Date: circa 2001 Front: REMO Clear Ambassador w/ hole Top Head : REMO Coated Ambassador Bottom Head: REMO Clear Ambassador Hit
Hit • Zildjian/Noble & Cooley (Helios Line In) Audio/EJG Glamouflage Kit/Snare2 • Pork Pie Glamouflage™ Size: 773 MB Audio/EJG Glamouflage Kit/Tom Mid Manufacturer: Zildjian/Noble & Cooley Size: 300 MB Size: 7x14” Manufacturer: Pork Pie Date: circa 1970’s Size: 14x16” Drum Head: REMO Coated Emperor X Model: Glamouflage Materials: Maple Hit, Rim, Flam, SS Date: circa 2001 Top Head : REMO Coated Ambassador • Pork Pie Glamouflage (Helios Mic In) Bottom Head: REMO Clear Ambassador Audio/EJG Glamouflage Kit/Kick3 Size: 272 MB Hit Manufacturer: Pork Pie Size: 18x24” • Pork Pie Glamouflage™ Model: Glamouflage Audio/EJG Glamouflage Kit/Tom Hi Beater: DW Plastic Size: 223 MB Date: circa 2001 Manufacturer: Pork Pie Size: 10x13” Hit Model: Glamouflage Materials: Maple • Zildjian/Noble & Cooley (Helios Mic In) Date: circa 2001 Audio/EJG Glamouflage Kit/Snare3 Top Head : REMO Coated Ambassador Size: 773 MB Bottom Head: REMO Clear Ambassador Manufacturer: Zildjian/Noble & Cooley Size: 7x14” Hit Date: circa 1970’s Drum Head: REMO Coated Emperor X
Hit, Rim, Flam, SS
14 15 Native Groove Tempo
Easy Grooves 140 BPM Thunder 119 BPM Funky 94 BPM Triplet Kick 119 BPM Fusion 94 BPM Yo Skippy 167 BPM Get Down 165 BPM High 105 BPM Jazzy Feel 180 BPM Lazy Groove 140 BPM Mad Hatter 180 BPM More Punk 147.5 BPM No Destiny 154.9 BPM P Wilson 113 BPM Punker 140 BPM Punkish 119 BPM Simple Groove 140 BPM Six Eight Lazy 75.2 BPM Sixty Eight 180 BPM Snare Groove 119 BPM Sorrow 140.3 BPM Stop It 140 BPM
16 17 Platinum Samples License Agreement
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16 17 Produced by: Joe Barresi, Rail Jon Rogut Recorded & mixed by: Joe Barresi Assistant Engineers: Josh Smith Drumming: Bobby Jarzombek Editing: Rail Jon Rogut MIDI Drumming: Matt Shapiro & Patrick Wilson MIDI & Groove Editing: Rail Jon Rogut E-Drums recorded at: Ritterhouse Music Programming: Paul Chana, Steve Baker, Angus Hewlett, SKoT McDonald, Andy Simper Photography: Nigel Copp Manual: Mayur Maha & Rail Jon Rogut
Thanks
Joe would like to thank: Tony, Dora and Anthony Barresi, Mike Fasano, Bobby Jarzombek, Pat Wilson, Shivaun O’Brien, Rail Jon Rogut, Josh Smith, Adam Fuller, Sound City Studios, Husky Hoskulds, John Paterno, Paul DeCarli, Bill Malina, Slava at Violet Microphones, Wade at Chandler Ltd. and Julia Titchfield at FXpansion.
Platinum Samples would also like to thank Joe and all the Barresi’s, Mike Fasano, Mike & Bridget O’Brien, Trini Alvarez, Trace Ritter, Mike Clink, the incredible folks at REMO: Michelle & Bruce Jacoby, John Emrich and the gang at FXpansion, especially Rhiannon Bankston-Thomas, SKoT McDonald, Steve Baker, Paul Chana and Angus Hewlett.
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